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Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today introduced Emma, your Epic Mountain Assistant, the world’s first digital mountain assistant to help guide guests while on their ski and snowboard vacation at nine of the Company’s resorts. Emma is an interactive mountain assistant who uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to answer a wide range of guests’ questions about their ski vacation. Emma will debut for the 2018-19 winter season at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in Tahoe; and Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada.

Vail Resorts continues to offer the best value in skiing and snowboarding for Colorado families with the combination of an Epic Local Pass for parents and the free Epic SchoolKids Colorado Pack for two children, kindergarten through fifth grade, for the 2018-19 winter season. The Epic SchoolKids Colorado Pack offers four free days of skiing and snowboarding each at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone for a total of 16 days. With the purchase of two Epic Local adult passes at $669 each, a family of four can ski or snowboard up to 16 days at Colorado’s four premier resorts for just under $21 per person per day.

United States. Canada. Australia. Japan. France. Switzerland. Italy. Austria. No other season pass gives skiers and snowboarders access to so many celebrated resorts around the world than the Epic Pass, including unlimited, unrestricted access to 15 mountain resorts and limited access to 46 more. Priced at $899 for the 2018-19 winter season, the Epic Pass remains unmatched in the mountain resort industry for the variety and value it offers skiers and snowboarders.

Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today announced a long-term alliance with one of Japan’s largest and most renowned mountain resort regions —Hakuba Valley, located in the northern part of the Nagano Prefecture at the base of Japan’s Northern Alps and host to the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, the Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass and Epic Australia Pass will offer five consecutive complimentary days with no blackout dates at the nine ski resorts that comprise Hakuba Valley. It brings the Epic Pass total to 55 mountain resorts in eight countries, significantly more than any other season pass in the world.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Epic Pass, 2018, Vail Resorts is honoring the epic service of the Company’s founders and men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, Canadian Armed Forces and Australian Defence Force, with the introduction of a special new USD$99 Military Epic Pass. Also, for every 2018-19 Vail Resorts season pass sold, the Company will donate USD$1 to Wounded Warrior Project®. Based on 2017-18 pass sales, the donation would exceed USD$750,000.

Back for a second year, and growing, this season’s Breck Pride promises not to disappoint when it rolls into town March 7-11, 2018. The annual celebration, hosted by Breckenridge Ski Resort and the Breckenridge Tourism Office, is jam packed with live music, daily après ski parties, a Color Run in costumes down the mountain, and much more fun and entertainment.

Thanks to the nearly two feet of snow that has fallen on Breckenridge Ski Resort in the last week, the resort is excited to announce that the Imperial Express SuperChair, the highest chairlift in North America, is now open. Breck currently has 80 percent of terrain open, including more than 120 trails and 2,300 acres across all five peaks.

With 5 inches of new snow reported this morning, 10 inches in the past two days and 16 inches officially reported so far from the recent storm cycle that hit Breckenridge Ski Resort, the resort is excited to announce that Peak 6 and the Kensho SuperChair are now open! Skiers and riders have access to all five peaks at Breck, including more than 100 trails across more than 1,900 acres of skiable terrain!

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